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1520 Canton

It comes down to this...selling an AM (short of a WHBC) in a market like Canton is like selling buggy whips at discount prices.

OK, so that might be a stretch, but you have to have a very special set of circumstances. And unless someone like a Chris Lash is looking to expand his empire west, well...

Think about this. Jack A. had what appears to be a tentative deal with Curtis Perry to LMA-to-buy 900. Who else is out there?

I get the idea that Ray Jeske has no designs on moving from 990 to 900. He probably has very little money...perhaps he's doing well in Massillon (on Tigers games alone, one presumes), but not well enough to expand to a marketwide signal.

I get no idea that DP III has designs on moving from 1310 to 900. I agree that his better bet would be an FM signal, if he's itching to expand, but there isn't one out there...unless NM sells 94.1, which isn't happening, and CC certainly isn't selling 101.7.

His only option is to wait out the lifespan of Jim Natoli for 95.9, and even then, I've heard that Jim's family isn't interested in selling to an operator that would turn it secular.
 
As noted on the blog in a recent entry, one of our readers was picking up gospel music on 1520, a VERY weak signal, within a couple of miles of Martindale.

And I mean weak...even in front of the site.

As far as I know, there is no other gospel operator on 1520 that it could have been. Theoretically, without WINW, you'd get a very, very scratchy run at WJMP (IIRC, just barely enough to know it's a talk station).
 
Two of our readers chime in...both hearing the station along Cleveland Avenue, even going into downtown Canton.

It's supposedly back as "Joy 1520". Was that CAP III's voice one of our readers heard?
 
Checking 1520 again today around 11:55 a.m., I heard a faint signal under the static about 1/2 mile north of the towers that sounded like gospel music ... then heard CAP III give station ID. So yes, it's back, but with a signal that probably doesn't even reach Canton's predominantly black neighborhoods.
 
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